Enterprising Personality

Enterprising Personality

According to Holland's Theory of Career Choice, a strong Enterprising personality type:

• Likes to lead and persuade people, and to sell things and ideas; generally avoids activities that require careful observation and scientific, analytical thinking;

• Is good at leading people and selling things or ideas;

• Values success in politics, leadership, or business; and

• Sees self as energetic, ambitious, and sociable.

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Enterprising Type: Work Environment

Persons having an Enterprising personality type "dominate" this environment. There are more of them than there are people of other personality types. For example, in a business or legal setting there will be more persons having an "Enterprising" personality than there will be people who have an Investigative type.

"Enterprising" people create an "Enterprising" environment. For example, they particularly value people who are energetic, ambitious, and sociable -- who are good at politics, leading people and selling things or ideas.

Examples of occupations that have a Enterprising environment are:

The two work environments that are closest to the Enterprising type are Social and Conventional. The furthest away is the Investigative type.